It is a cliche in our business that the first 90 percent of the work is easy, the second 90 percent wears you down, and the last 90 percent – the attention to detail – makes a good product.
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Only half of programming is coding. The other 90% is debugging.
For the most part Instagram people preached positivity and contentment, and reminded themselves and their followers that the aesthetic harmony attainable in images was fleeting, not sustainable as a way of life. Instagram people did not seem mean or clever. They were earnest and sincere. They drank green smoothies and went on hikes, sought personal bests, good health, peace of mind, and oneness with the universe. They believed every day was a beautiful day to be alive. Leaving Twitter for Instagram was like
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Reasons for Burnout
11. Positivity bias: cultural blindspot of missing problems that are the repercussion of too much of a cherished value, like freedom, communication, and personal responsibility. “The violence of positivity does not deprive, it saturates; it does not exclude, it exhausts.” –Byung-Chul Han’s The Burnout Society. A disease of abundance requires abstinence, not antidotes.
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I heard once about a Yiddish poet who lived in utter poverty and misery, a teenager, who never had seen anything beautiful in his life, and he made splendid poems about vegetables jumping into the soup pot. My idea being that for the sublime and the beautiful and the interesting, you don’t have to look far away. You have to know how to see.
I have been told all my life to compare the present to the past. If we compare it to the future, we can imagine that later generations may look back on us alive in 2020 as the lucky ones.